The parents of Grace Tam took to the Bethlehem Lutheran Church stage to ... died last week after a chunk of ice fell on her at Big Ice Caves near Granite Falls. 'There was a lot that went on ...

“Last year, I left the Nativity church at 3 a.m. after multiple Masses,” says Kevin Vollrath, manager of Middle East partnerships at Churches for Middle East Peace, who lives near ...

The Israeli army, Tuesday, demolished a man-made cave and shed being used to shelter a Palestinian family in al-Walja, a small village established to the northwest of Bethlehem.Ammar Abu Attin, an ...

She saw this little cave and this ceramic manger or trough ... In 1967, the Israelis took control of a pumping station near Kfar Etzion in the Bethlehem governorate, which later became the site ...

Bethlehem, occupied West Bank — This year, Bethlehem is sombre and quiet. There is no Christmas tree and there are no holiday lights or tourists to see them. Instead, the city of Jesus’s birth ...

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While these writers could be referring to different caves, they attest that Bethlehem had at least one ... and – as Hadrian built temples at, or near, both the Jewish temple at Jerusalem and ...

In 1947, or late 1946, the first batch of Dead Sea Scrolls was found in a cave located near the site of Qumran ... named Khalil Iskander Shahin in Bethlehem. Other fragments were found in a ...

Fragments of stone from the Cave of the Nativity of Christ in Bethlehem are now part of the collection in the Shrine of All Saints, which is housed at St. Martha of Bethany Church. The nearly 150 ...

Christmas calls us back to the cave at Bethlehem to look upon Jesus who is the heart of our faith. Humanity’s sins do not destroy the innocence and purity of the child born in Bethlehem.

The idea of Bethlehem touches every believer at a primal level. It stirs in us stories of David being called from the sheep flock to shepherd the people of Israel. It reminds us of Christmas ...